The job board project was first reported in early July, and was originally to have launched in August. It was delayed then, and then again in mid-September. The reasons for the postponements were not disclosed. A source told me that Facebook has now given the go-ahead to launch the site, though, “we’ve seen this happen before (last minute postponements).”

Facebook site will reportedly aggregate job listings

Specific details for the launch site weren’t available. However, according to details first reported by The Wall Street Journal and Dow Jones Newswires in July, the jobs site will aggregate listings from BranchOut, DirectEmployers Association, Jobvite, Monster, and Work4Labs. Both BranchOut, and Monster’s BeKnown, are social networking subgroups built on the Facebook platform, specifically for business and recruiting.

The missing ingredient was a job board. Facebook’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg long expected that recruitment would be a part of the Facebook platform. Until now, however, jobs weren’t searchable; employers bought job ads which are served to targeted site visitors based on behavioral and profile data.

The Social Jobs Partnership job board isn’t a commercial project, at least not for Facebook. Jobs listings from the participants will be offered at no additional charge. However, what Facebook learns from the project could easily be used to build a jobs delivery service of its own.

John has been writing about recruiting and employment for nearly a decade,and has worked in the field for almost twice as long. He traces his connection to the employment industry back to the beginning of the commercial Internet when he managed some of the earliest news oriented websites. These offered job boards, which became highly popular with users. John worked with agencies and large employers on job postings, resume search, and campaigns, before consulting with media companies on audience development and online advertising sales.

“Aggregating job listings” will not make a job board on Facebook unique. Showing connections to job is interesting, but it’s now common across job-related sites (see Glassdoor). Where Facebook can truly capitalize is on the multitude of content being uploaded every day by people working at the companies and on the hiring teams. Figuring out how to serve up dynamic content surrounding a job to interested recipients is a recipe to make this a game changer…not just another destination for “aggregated job listings”.

http://twitter.com/Sarangbrahme Sarang Brahme

This will surely shot up prices of third party job posting ads on Facebook as everyone will jump on them :)

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The sheer size of the Facebook footprint makes it a formidable platform for a job board. Apart from sites mentioned there are scores of FB Pages that list jobs and can easily be integrated in Facebook’s job listing. This could have far reaching impact in future.

http://twitter.com/VocusCareers Vocus Careers

This is a tremendous opportunity for employers whose target demographic has a large presence on Facebook. Recruiters, who are in the know, are using social platforms to source and recruit candidates. If this works, it will give a great incentive to those employers who don’t currently have a Facebook presence to establish one. At Vocus, we integrated our Jobvite listings on our careers page so fans can apply for jobs without leaving the platform. Hopefully, these opportunities will now be searchable to Facebook users. If you’re looking for a job in the DC area at company with tremendous growth, check us out facebook.com/vocuscareers.